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		<title>Laser Classroom Website Sneak Peak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting in March, I will be offering an Optics and Lasers workshop in partnership with Laser Classroom. The premise is much the same as the hugely successful Digital Photography Bridge to Nature Workshops I&#8217;ve been lucky to be part of for the past couple years: utilize students&#8217; natural affinity for technology to jump start learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duluth Dragonflies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nature Photographer and Author and overall awesome guy Dudley Edomdson showed me around Duluth a couple weekends ago. We ended up at Hartley Nature Center chasing down Odonata. Below are some photos he is generously sharing with me for use during my Dragonfly Teacher Workshops. All photos rights belong to Dudley. In the bottom images [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amithompson.com/2011/duluth-dragonflies/</link>
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		<title>Dragonfly Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a very nice you tube news report about Kurt Mead and the Minnesota Odonata Survey Project which inspired the development of the Dragonfly Teacher Workshops. The Teacher Workshops will include all of the experiences you see in the video with a focus on how to bring this into the classroom and connect with current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amithompson.com/2011/dragonfly-video/</link>
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		<title>The Birth of a Teacher Workshop (or two)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got two new teacher workshops coming up this winter/spring (all about 1. dragonflies and 2. lasers) and I thought I&#8217;d share a bit of how they came to be! This past June I drove down to Albert Lea to learn about Dragon and Damselfly ID from Kurt Mead. Kurt is the fearless leader of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amithompson.com/2011/the-birth-of-a-teacher-workshop-or-two/</link>
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		<title>Hummingbird Clearwing Moth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While wondering around the charming historic city of Cedarburg (SE Wisconsin) this weekend I stumbled upon this Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (Hemaris thysbe). My friend Leslie Witte gets credit for spotting it and my husband Jon Thompson snapped these photos. Notice the white legs and the white-sided thorax. If this moth had red on its legs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amithompson.com/2011/hummingbird-clearwing-moth/</link>
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		<title>Backyard Goldfinch Zen</title>
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		<link>http://www.amithompson.com/2011/backyard-goldfinch-zen/</link>
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		<title>Digital Bridge: Bahamas Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background Scoop: The Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds (SCSCB) invited the Digital Photography Bridge to Nature program to present at their 2011 conference two weeks ago in Freeport, Grand Bahamas. Carrol Henderson (the brains-behind and creator-of Digital Bridge) invited out-state Digital Bridge Facilitator, professional nature photographer, and author Dudley Edmondson and me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amithompson.com/2011/digital-bridge-bahamas-edition/</link>
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		<title>Back Yard Biodiversity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[8/7/11 UPDATE: Baby crab spiders hatched last week! The mama stuck around for a couple days, and yesterday she was gone; still lots of baby crab spiders hanging out by the egg sack today. I just returned from a week in the Bahamas and am pleasantly surprised at all that has bloomed and changed in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amithompson.com/2011/back-yard-biodiversity/</link>
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		<title>Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary hosted a Digital Photography Bridge to Nature workshop I facilitated last Saturday. I&#8217;m grateful for the Garden&#8217;s generosity in hosting, Saturday was the first day the park was open after the twister came through knocking down trees and making the road to the garden impassible. Fortunately, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amithompson.com/2011/eloise-butler-wildflower-garden/</link>
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		<title>Jack in the Pulpet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a random shot of the highlight of todays stroll around Wood Lake Nature Center, large blooming Jack in the Pulpets: Here&#8217;s Bonus Barn Swallow photographed by my husband Jon Thompson These are the results of our first outing with a new camera: Sony NEX-5. We wanted something smaller and lighter than our Canon 5D [...]]]></description>
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